Townhead, Including Townhead Cottage and Barn Attached with Garden Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House, barn.
Townhead, Including Townhead Cottage and Barn Attached with Garden Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- ruined-wicket-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- Townhead, Including Townhead Cottage and Barn Attached with Garden Walls and Railings, Martindale, Westmorland and Furness, CA10 2NF
- OS grid reference
- NY 423 196
- Coordinates
- 54.56847, -2.89338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townhead, which includes Townhead Cottage and an attached barn, is a pair of houses and a bank barn with date stones from 1720 and 1857. The house is constructed of roughcast stone rubble, while the barn features dressed stone with sandstone dressings and has a hipped slate roof. The east elevation has two storeys and four bays, with the first bay being an extension that forms a cottage, reduced to one storey due to the high ground level; the barn is located to the north.
The windows are sashed with glazing bars, featuring paired windows on the ground floor and in the first bay, along with a small-paned fire window in the fourth bay. The entrance to the third bay has a six-fielded-panel door. There are two ashlar cross-axial stacks with moulded caps. The front garden walls are topped with plain iron railings and have rusticated gate and angle piers with ogival caps; the iron gates are adorned with decorative finials.
The barn has two windows with small-paned glazing, one of which is an insertion, and two entrances, one of which has a chamfered jamb and lintel inscribed with "I & AS/1720". There is also a winnowing door. A slate date stone on the barn is inscribed: "RICHARD GRAVE HINDSON 1857". The rear of the property features two gabled wings for the houses, while the barn entrance has a long wing to the north and an outshut under a catslide roof to the south. Most windows have small-paned glazing.
Local climate
Townhead, Including Townhead Cottage and Barn Attached with Garden Walls and Railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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